Re: gnome-control-center: Determine categories by .desktop category?

[Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com>]

For what it's worth, the New New control-center shell that Rodrigo has
been talking about potentially using in 2.18+, that was written for
SLED 10, already does all this.

-- dobey


On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 18:22 +0100, Thomas Wood wrote:
> Denis Washington wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Looking into the gnome-control-center code, it seems to me that the
> > categories for the view are determined by the directroy structure inside
> > of the "Preferences" menu directory. Wouldn't it be more practical if
> > the category of a preferences item was determined by a category written
> > into the "Categories" property in the .desktop file?
> > gnome-mouse-properties, for instance, already has "HardwareSettings" in
> > it's Categories value; we could add more categories, like
> > "PersonalSettings" or "AccessibilitySettings", to the other .desktop
> > files. This way, the preference entries can still all stay in the same
> > menu directory, and the control center view would anyway be nicely
> > categorized.
> Sounds like a good idea, especially for your revised control center 
> shell. I think overall the screenshot you posted earlier shows something 
> heading in the right direction, so keep up the good work! I hope we can 
> create a few more categories (or re-categorise), such as 
> AppearanceSettings for Background, Theme and Font capplets.
> 
> -Thomas